that could dream about a thought, salvaged denim, thread, 2020-2022, 18 x 10 feet

Falling at 18 x 10 feet, “that could dream about a thought” explores the relationship between the function of pattern, especially the psychological need to find patterns and create categories in relationship to the manifestation of the “immigrant dream”. It begins from speculation of pattern and pattern-making, self-referential over-stimulation, and random stimuli to investigate the rules and hierarchies that structure projections, sometimes referred to as tendencies.

Looking at “that could dream about a thought,” which emulates the sky, activates an engaged process of looking in which viewers imagine what they want to see. This hyper-individualistic process of reaching one’s aspirations through the symbols and tools of dreams and dreaming becomes and on-going loop that is substituted for real actions and change. This work investigates the desires that keep us in a sense of urgency and the fantasy of change that pervades our cultural logic of the material and economic order of capitalism. It’s a ploy, a tactic of failure, a technical trick, a means of manipulation, a hole-y whole and a whole hole, a formulaic fiction to ask, “how do the consequences of relations define the systems that underpin capitalism?”